Beyond the Resource Curse

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Richard M. Auty is Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography at Lancaster University. He researches industrial policy, resource-driven development , and the political economy of development. His books include: Resource Abundance and Economic Development (Oxford University Press, 2004); Sustainable Development in Mineral Economies (Oxford University Press, 1998); Resource Endowment, Development Policy and Economic Growth (Edward Arnold, 1995). Naazneen H. Barma is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Her research focuses on the political economy of development and on international interventions in post-conflict states. Barma previously worked at the World Bank on governance and institutional reform in East Asia and the Pacific. She is co-author of Rents to Riches? The Political Economy of Natural Resource-Led Development (World Bank, 2011). Reidar Bratvold is a professor at the University of Stavanger and at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and Science where he is teaching and supervising graduate students engaging in research in uncertainty assessment, risk management, investment analysis, decision sciences, and market-based valuation. He holds a PhD in petroleum engineering and an MSc in mathematics , both from Stanford University. Reidar is the author of the book Making Good Decisions (Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2010). Patrick Clawson is the Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the author or editor of sixteen books and monographs about the Middle East. He previously served at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the U.S. National Defense University, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. 450 Contributors Ole Andreas Engen is a professor at SEROS (Centre for Risk Management & Societal Safety), University of Stavanger, Norway. He holds a master’s degree (MPhil) in Economics and a PhD in Sociology. He is also employed part time as a senior researcher at International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS). Jeffrey Frankel is Harpel Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He directs the program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is on its Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially dates US recessions. He served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, 1996–99. Murad Ismayilov is a research fellow at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA). He is also the editor of ADA’s publication Azerbaijan in the World. His research interests include international relations, international security, political theory, energy security, national identity, and state-society relations (with a regional focus on Azerbaijan and post-Soviet Eurasia), as well as sociology and security of the Middle East. He has authored a number of academic articles and book chapters. Amy M. Jaffe is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies and director of the Energy Forum at the James A. Baker III Institute For Public Policy at Rice University. Jaffe’s research focuses on oil and gas geopolitics, strategic energy policy, and energy economics. Among her publications she served as co-editor of Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future (Palgrave, 2002) and Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and as co-author of Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold (Cambridge University Press, January 2010 with Mahmoud El-Gamal). Richard Jones is the Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, a post he has held since October 2008. Jones has been a career U.S. diplomat, serving as the U.S. Ambassador to four countries: Israel (2005– 2008), Kuwait (2001–2004), Kazakhstan (1998–2001), and Lebanon (1996– 1998). He has academic degrees from Harvey Mudd College (BS, Mathematics with Distinction) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (MS, PhD in Business/Statistics). Contributors 451 Oluf Langhelle is a professor at the University of Stavanger. He holds a Dr. Polit. in political science and teaches sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR). He has co-edited a number of books, among them Caching the Carbon: The Politics and Policy of Carbon Capture and Storage, together with James Meadowcroft. Ahmad Mojtahed is professor of Economics at Allameh Tabatabai University and vice president of Saman bank in Tehran, Iran. Previously, he served as president of Monetary and Banking Research Academy of Central Bank of Iran. Elkin Nurmammadov is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. He holds a BA in Business Administration from Bogazici University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Georgia. His research interest is in...